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4.5 hours till first Olympic event starts 

Not sure about, gold (have they played together in the past?), but on paper this is our best option for mixed doubles so it's great we get to see it.

Moving this over from the team size thread with a small update in team size.
 
Canada 
 
Total number of athletes: 370 (226 will be at their first Olympics)
Women: 225, Men: 145
Youngest: Summer McIntosh, 14 (August 18, 2006), Swimming; Oldest – Mario Deslauriers, 56 (February 2, 1965), Equestrian 
Team sports – 8; the most in a non-hosted or non-boycotted Games
 
Sets of siblings:
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford (Athletics) and Lucia Stafford (Athletics)  Halle Pratt (Artistic Swimming) and Cole Pratt (Swimming) Claire Wright (Water Polo) and Emma Wright (Water Polo) Children of Olympians:
Axelle Crevier, Water Polo (Mother Marie-Claude Deslières, Water Polo)  Tali Darsigny, Weightlifting (Father Yvan, Weightlifting)  Nicholas Hoag, Volleyball (Father Glenn, Volleyball) Lynda Kiejko, Shooting (Father Bill Hare, Shooting) Kai Langerfeld, Rowing (Father York, Rowing) Summer McIntosh, Swimming (Mother Jill Horstead, Swimming) Mariah Millen, Sailing (Father John, Sailing) Jordan Steen, Wrestling (Father Dave, Athletics and Mother Andrea Page, Athletics)  Ali ten Hove, Sailing (Father Martin, Sailing)  Avalon Wasteneys, Rowing (Mother Heather Clarke, Rowing)   Jillian Weir, Athletics (Father Robert,  Athletics)   Provincial and territorial breakdown (by hometown):
Ontario: 171 Quebec: 58 British Columbia: 95 Nova Scotia: 8 Alberta: 28 Manitoba: 5 Saskatchewan: 3 Athletes with hometowns outside Canada: 2 New Brunswick: 1 Newfoundland and Labrador: 0 Northwest Territories: 0 Nunavut: 0 Prince Edward Island: 0 Yukon: 0  
Athletes who previously attended a Games:
Olympic Games (Summer): 144 Youth Olympic Games (Summer): 16 Olympic Winter Games: 2  
By Olympic Games (Summer):
Los Angeles 1984: 1 Seoul 1988: 1 Athens 2004: 4 Beijing 2008: 17 London 2012: 33 Rio 2016: 134  
By Youth Olympic Games (Summer):
Singapore 2010: 3  Nanjing 2014: 8 Buenos Aires 2018: 5  
By Olympic Winter Games:
Vancouver 2010: 1 Sochi 2014: 2 PyeongChang 2018: 1

18:00 local time

The hope is back alive.
 
According some sources the final NHL schedule is set and include a Olympic break from 5th-22nd February !!! 
 
Now lets hope it is true, NHL will officially release the schedule on Thursday

Canada
 
 
Miranda Ayim (basketball) and Nathan Hirayama (rugby sevens).
 
 
Totally unexpected!

I just realised they didn't include any field hockey medals for . Who else did they gave the field hockey medals to you may ask? Well they didn't even include the sport!

I'd take a medal in artistic swimming team .
 
Also no swimming relay medals for Canada is a bit weird.

The most reliable press agency of the world the american AP presented the medal predictions for the Olympics
 
They predicted 4 medals to Slovakia, all in canoe sports, 3 in Canoe Slalom and 1 in Canoe Sprint
 
however...
 
it has a small...
 
problem...
 
actually 2 of them are from athletes
 
Peter Kauzer and Eva Tercelj
 

 
https://apnews.com/article/sports-2020-tokyo-olympics-africa-canada-middle-east-b95fdb2d762d7fbcf16e6555effc47be
 
 

Is this or every other topic on this subforum now going to be one guy constantly arguing with entire board about how he feels the games should be canceled or how there's going to be some sort of covid disaster and we're all going to die. I mean, come on. If they don't want to ban him which should have done months ago just stop interacting with the guy who obviously isn't registered here to communicate in good faith. 

Canada
 
 
Miranda Ayim (basketball) and Nathan Hirayama (rugby sevens).
 
 
Totally unexpected!

Canada flagbearers will be announced at 830 am eastern time tomorrow.

Canada flagbearers will be announced at 830 am eastern time tomorrow.

Queen Paula "I'm too sexy for long pants" Badosa (and Team  ) have arrived  
 

Interesting...

Interesting...

518 Olympians (so about 5%) will be celebrating their birthdays during the Olympics (23-8th)
 
Here are the Canadians celebrating their birthday on the day of their competition:
 
Mandy Bujold on July 25th first round of 51 kg boxing
Nicole Hare on July 26th in the repachage of women's four rowing* (only if they qualify for this round)
Matt Mullins on July 28th in rugby sevens (guaranteed a match here)
Derek Gee on August 3rd in the Men's team pursuit track cycling
Georgia Ellenwood on August 5th on the second day of the heptathlon 
Anicka Newell on August 5th in the women's pole vault final (if she qualifies for it)
Roland Varga on August 6th in the C1 1000 m
Nik Matveev on August 7th in the K4 500m (if they qualify for this stage)
 
 

The venue for racing looks nice: 
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRUdJvXr7bd/ 

Updated progression system: https://www.canoeicf.com/sites/default/files/tokyo_2020_canoe_sprint_progression_system_july_2021.pdf

Well, if there's an (air) bubble in your heart, you don't have to worry about COVID anymore. Because you are dead. 

He won't be replaced according to ITG

Moving this over from the team size thread with a small update in team size.
 
Canada 
 
Total number of athletes: 370 (226 will be at their first Olympics)
Women: 225, Men: 145
Youngest: Summer McIntosh, 14 (August 18, 2006), Swimming; Oldest – Mario Deslauriers, 56 (February 2, 1965), Equestrian 
Team sports – 8; the most in a non-hosted or non-boycotted Games
 
Sets of siblings:
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford (Athletics) and Lucia Stafford (Athletics)  Halle Pratt (Artistic Swimming) and Cole Pratt (Swimming) Claire Wright (Water Polo) and Emma Wright (Water Polo) Children of Olympians:
Axelle Crevier, Water Polo (Mother Marie-Claude Deslières, Water Polo)  Tali Darsigny, Weightlifting (Father Yvan, Weightlifting)  Nicholas Hoag, Volleyball (Father Glenn, Volleyball) Lynda Kiejko, Shooting (Father Bill Hare, Shooting) Kai Langerfeld, Rowing (Father York, Rowing) Summer McIntosh, Swimming (Mother Jill Horstead, Swimming) Mariah Millen, Sailing (Father John, Sailing) Jordan Steen, Wrestling (Father Dave, Athletics and Mother Andrea Page, Athletics)  Ali ten Hove, Sailing (Father Martin, Sailing)  Avalon Wasteneys, Rowing (Mother Heather Clarke, Rowing)   Jillian Weir, Athletics (Father Robert,  Athletics)   Provincial and territorial breakdown (by hometown):
Ontario: 171 Quebec: 58 British Columbia: 95 Nova Scotia: 8 Alberta: 28 Manitoba: 5 Saskatchewan: 3 Athletes with hometowns outside Canada: 2 New Brunswick: 1 Newfoundland and Labrador: 0 Northwest Territories: 0 Nunavut: 0 Prince Edward Island: 0 Yukon: 0  
Athletes who previously attended a Games:
Olympic Games (Summer): 144 Youth Olympic Games (Summer): 16 Olympic Winter Games: 2  
By Olympic Games (Summer):
Los Angeles 1984: 1 Seoul 1988: 1 Athens 2004: 4 Beijing 2008: 17 London 2012: 33 Rio 2016: 134  
By Youth Olympic Games (Summer):
Singapore 2010: 3  Nanjing 2014: 8 Buenos Aires 2018: 5  
By Olympic Winter Games:
Vancouver 2010: 1 Sochi 2014: 2 PyeongChang 2018: 1

I thought it would be a cool idea for people to post some interesting facts/figures about their country’s delegations. I’ll start with Greece 
 
By the numbers:
29th Summer Olympic appearance (tied for most of all-time)
83 = athletes in Tokyo (smallest team since Barcelona 1992. We had 93 in Rio 2016)
46 = male athletes in Tokyo (56 in Rio 2016)
37 = female athletes in Tokyo (same amount as Rio 2016)
17 = sports in Tokyo (15 in 2016, 19 in 2012, 22 in 2008)
40 = Olympic debutants in Tokyo
43 = former Olympians in Tokyo
4 = mothers in Tokyo (Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou-pole vault, Paraskevi Papachristou-triple jump, Evangelia Psarra-archery, Emilia Tsoulfa-sailing)
18 = athletes born in 2000 or later
32 = age of oldest Olympic debutant (Polychronis Tzortzakis-cycling)
8 = former Youth Olympics participants
6 = most Olympic appearances (Evangelia Psarra-archery)
4 = former Olympic gold medalists (Anna Korakaki-shooting, Eleftherios Petrounias-gymnastics, Ekaterini Stefanidi-athletics, Emilia Tsoulfa-sailing)
6 = former Olympic medalists (same as above +Pavlos Kagialis-sailing, Panagiotis Mantis-sailing)
 
Athletes with the most Olympic appearances (including Tokyo) :
6: Evangelia Psarra (archery - 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
5: Panagiotis Gionis (table tennis - 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
4: Konstantinos Douvalidis (athletics - 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020), Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou (athletics - 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020), Emilia Tsoulfa (sailing - 1996, 2000, 2004, 2020), Christos Volikakis (cycling - 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
 
Former Olympians who were not in Rio:
Periklis Ilias (cycling - 2012, 2020)
Nikolaos Mavrommatis (shooting - 2012, 2020)
Dimitrios Tsiamis (athletics - 2008, 2020)
Emilia Tsoulfa (sailing - 1996, 2000, 2004, 2020)
 
Three youngest Olympians:
1. Krystalenia Gialama (artistic swimming) - 16 years, 11 months
2. Eleni Fragkaki (artistic swimming) - 17 years, 5 months
3. Andriana Misikevych (artistic swimming) - 18 years, 4 months
 
Three oldest Olympians:
1. Emilia Tsoulfa (sailing) - 48 years, 2 months
2. Evangelia Psarra (archery) - 47 years, 1 month
3. Panagiotis Gionis (table tennis) - 41 years, 6 months
 
Siblings:
1. Anneta Kyridou (rowing) and Maria Kyridou (rowing)
2. Stamatia Scarvelis (athletics) and Nicholas Scarvelis (athletics, 2016)
3. Christos Volikakis (cycling) and Zafeiris Volikakis (cycling, 2012)
*Those in italics represented Greece but are not in Tokyo.
 
Parents/Children:
1. Maria Sakkari (tennis) and Angeliki Kanellopoulou (tennis, 1984)
2. Kristian Gkolomeev (swimming) and  Tsvetan Gkolomeev (swimming, 1980 and 1988)
*Those in italics represented Greece but are not in Tokyo.
 
Top cities with the most 2020 Olympians:
1. Athens - too many to count
2. Chania, Crete - 7
3. Thessaloniki, Macedonia - 6
4. Karditsa, Thessaly - 4
5. Heraklion, Crete - 3
*First time since 1996 that no athletes from Corfu (Kerkyra) island are going to the Olympics, and first time since 2000 that no athletes from Kastoria, Macedonia and Veria, Macedonia are going to the Olympics.
 
Athletes born in other countries:
 Kristian Gkolomeev (swimming) - His family moved to Greece when he was an infant and he lived in Greece his entire life
 Alexios Ntanatsidis (judo) - Both of his parents are Greeks and he lived in Greece from a very young age
 Stamatia Scarvelis (athletics) - Both of her parents are Greeks
 
Athletes from Greece but representing other countries:
 Kristina Alvertsian (athletics)
 Anna-Maria Alexandri (artistic swimming), Eirini Alexandri (artistic swimming)
 Sideris Tasiadis (canoeing) [okay he is different from the others because he lived most of his life in Germany but he did live in Greece for 10 years during his childhood so we’ll count him]
 Afrodite Zegers [nee Kyranakou] (sailing)
 Stephania Haralabidis (water polo)
*All used to compete for Greece except for Tasiadis
 
Athletes that train in Greece but represent other countries:
 Nikol Merizaj (swimming)
 Kristina Alvertsian (athletics)
 Kalia Antoniou (swimming), Nikolaos Antoniou (swimming)
 Marija Vukovic (athletics)
*I didn’t include people who play for Greek clubs in team sports because in water polo for example there would be so many.
 
Biggest teams by sport:
Athletics: 20 in 15 events
Water Polo: 13 in 1 event
Swimming: 12 in 13 events
Artistic Swimming: 9 in 2 events
Sailing: 8 in 6 events
 
Biggest changes in team size compared to Rio:
(-)8: Gymnastics
(+)7: Artistic Swimming
(-)6: Rowing
(-)5: Athletics
 
Events where more than one athlete/team per country is allowed to participate, and the country has reached the maximum quotas:
Athletics: women’s 20 km walk (3), women’s pole vault (3)
Swimming: men's 200 m freestyle (2), men's 400 m freestyle (2), men’s 800 m freestyle (2), men’s 200 m individual medley (2)
 
First time qualifying in…
Rowing women’s pair EVER
Swimming mixed relay EVER (new event)
Swimming men’s 800 m freestyle EVER (new event)
Tennis mixed doubles EVER
Artistic swimming team since 2004
Men’s tennis since 2004
Sailing women’s 470 since 2004
Athletics women’s 100 m since 2000
Rowing women’s single sculls since 1996
 
First time not qualifying in…
Heptathlon since 1996
Shot put since 1996
Marathon since 1992
High jump since 1988
Rhythmic gymnastics since 1984
 
Other interesting facts:
-In 2004 (8 and 8), 2008 (2 and 2), 2012 (1 and 1) and 2016 (3 and 3), each time Greece had the same amount of men’s medals as women’s medals. It will be interesting to see if that trend will continue this time, or if one gender will do better than the other in Tokyo.
 
-Our long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou was just 18 in Rio, and he was the youngest of the 103 members of the Greek Olympic team in 2016. Now he is not the youngest, but he is the only member of the Greek Olympic team that actually speaks Japanese. He claims to understand everything but says his speaking isn't perfect although he can converse in Japanese. He learned the language because he is a big fan of Japanese anime. I bet not too many countries can say they have athletes going to Tokyo who can actually speak Japanese, especially someone who is one of their biggest hopes to win gold as Tentoglou is for us.
 
-This is our 11th consecutive Olympic participation in men's water polo. We've never had more than two consecutive participations in any other team sport.
 
-I haven't seen any official lists yet, but it is likely that Greece will have the youngest teams of all countries in the sports of artistic swimming and rowing (based on average age of all athletes per NOC in these two sports).
 
 
Feel free to add any other interesting facts about your countries’ teams!